Selected Government Information Sites
- Selected Government Information Sites
The following is a list of recommended sites to find available online information for federal, state, international and foreign levels of government.
Federal Government: General Information
- Basic Collection for Federal Depository Libraries
- Explore Government Documents (University of Michigan)
- Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP)
- DiscoverGov (Federated search engine of U.S. Federal government databases)
- Federal Agency Directory (Louisiana State University)
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Other Federal Courts
- United States House of Representatives
- United States Senate
- The White House
Federal Government: Legislative and Regulatory Information
- Code of Federal Regulations (GovInfo access)
- Congress.org [Searchable directories and current awareness]
- The Federal Register (GovInfo Access)
- Regulations.gov (Regulations from nearly 300 federal agencies; submit a comment on a regulation)
- Federal Register (Citizen-friendly Federal Register)
- GovInfo (Federal Digital System, GPO)
- GovInfo/GPO Access Online Resources: A-Z Resource list
- Federal Tax Forms and Publications
State Information
- Government Resources on the Web: States (University of Arizona)
- State Constitutions, Statutes and Related Legislative Information (Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute)
- State Government Collections - try American Law Sources On-line (ALSO!) (LawSource.com)
- State List: The Electronic Source of State Publications (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- State of Illinois Home Page
- Illinois General Assembly (includes Illinois Compiled Statutes, links to House and Senate floor debates)
- Illinois Administrative Code
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
- Illinois Courts
- Illinois Tax Forms and Publications
International and Foreign Information
- Country Studies (Library of Congress)
- EUROPA: The Official Website of the European Union (EU)
- Foreign National Governments/International Governmental Organizations/Non-governmental Organizations (ALA GODORT International Documents Task Force)
- Organization of American States (OAS)
- U.S. Department of State [see also U.S. State Department Archive]
- United Nations (UN)
- globalEDGE (Michigan State University, collection of web-based international business resources and much more)
- U.S. Commerce Service Market Research Library (Department of Commerce, international trade-related documents)
Statistical Resources
- Bureau of Labor Statistics (U.S. Department of Labor)
- StatsPolicy [Statistics and information produced by U.S. federal government agencies]
- National Center for Education Statistics (U.S. Department of Education/Institute of Education Sciences)
- National Center for Health Statistics (Department of Health and Human Services)
- Statistical Resources (University of North Texas)
- U.S. Census Bureau (U.S. Department of Commerce)
Additional Resources
- Free Legal Research Sites | Antonin Scalia Law School
- Research Guide - U.S. Government (DePaul University Libraries)
- The "Agency Approach" To Locating Government Information on the Internet: A Tutorial (Western Illinois University)
- USA.gov (Search engine for government information)
- PURL Information Page (U.S. Government Printing Office)
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